Dell RecoverPoint vs Dell SRDF (Symmetrix Remote Data Facility ) [EOL] comparison

"I would rate the overall solution a 9.9 out of 10."

"It can replicate data from a distant location and it can scan it as well, with continuous data replication and almost no data loss."

"It excels in duplicating data between two distinct types of storage systems."

"It has improved RTO and RPO."

"The technical support for Dell RecoverPoint is excellent."

"It can replicate data from a distant location and it can scan it as well. It has continuous data replication with almost no data loss."

"With RecoverPoint, we can instantly mount an image Point in Time in case of a problem, and the Recovery Time Objective was improved for sure."

"The tool's most valuable feature is stability."

"In all the companies in which I have used the product the ease of Disaster Recovery was implemented in such a manner that the risk of a site disaster was mitigated in an efficient way, and it made the migrations of complete data centers to other new data centers at other locations a piece of cake."

"Customer service for this product was top notch."

"We've found the support to be very good overall."

"Customer Service: Top notch. Technical Support: Excellent."

"The feature of taking snapshots from the replicated volumes has allowed us to use them for DR testing to validate the application consistent point of recovery."

"Customer Service: Very good. Technical Support: Very good."

"We've found the support to be very good overall."

"The SRDF solution has improved our disaster recovery RPO to near zero or less than 15 minutes with RTO getting drastically reduced."

"The product should provide integration with new products."

"The solution normally supports only specific types and amounts of storage. If it could be increased to support much larger amounts or a wider range, it could fetch a bigger market."

"The cost of the solution is pretty high. The licensing costs may affect a company's ability to scale."

"In the future, I would like Dell RecoverPoint to evolve as an orchestration tool that can integrate with other replication tools such as Microsoft native replication and Oracle Data Guard."

"Other hypervisors should be integrated with this system. Other hypervisors should be able to get the benefits of this solution."

"The cost of the solution is pretty high. The licensing costs may affect a company's ability to scale."

"Currently the product does not support cascaded replication, only "Y" replication."

"The new Gen5 appliances have adopted the Unisphere management interface and it is written for Adobe Flash, which in my experience, is very slow and makes administration cumbersome at times."

"If you are new to the product, the initial setup might be a bit difficult."

"In general, it’s very stable although some time SRDF don’t behave as expected specially if the link is not stable or saturated."

"Our ROI was minimal, because we use it for a cold, disaster recovery method."

"As of late I have seen the replication drop but this was not due to the SRDF, it was due to the high rate of IO changes on the OS side."

"SRDF compared with EMC Recover Point has less capabilities, for ex. CDP (local or remote) is missing, only EMC assets compatibility, as a TCO is more expensive than implementing IBM SVC or EMC VPLEX virtualization and replication (more supported assets)."

"If you are new to the product, the initial setup might be a bit difficult."

"The main pain point that we experienced is during device creation."

"The main pain point that we experienced is during device creation. For every newly provisioned volume, creating replication relationships between production and DR site, creating snapshots for third copy at DR site, and configuring them in appropriate replication groups and device groups means that there are lot of steps involved and a lot of room for error. There has to be a lot of checks and balances which need to be incorporated to make sure that the solution is set up correctly."

"It is considered quite costly."

"While I recommend Dell EMC, it depends on your specific use case. Licensing is perpetual, meaning you buy it once."

"The price is moderate."

"RecoverPoint came free as an add-on to the PowerProtect Data Manager backup software from Dell EMC."

"Support is an additional subscription."

"The product is fairly priced."